Athens Informer

The European Commission was attempting on Friday to untangle a bureaucratic jumble threatening to scupper the Greek government’s plan to provide, with the help of European Union funds, a short-term work scheme for members of some 400,000 families that do … … Full News here – Latest News

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Fitch Ratings on Tuesday upgraded its sovereign credit rating for Greece to B-minus from CCC citing a rebalancing of the economy and progress in eliminating its fiscal and current account deficits that have reduced its risk of a euro zone exit. “The pric… … Full News here – Latest News

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The oldest Greek to be registered on the social networking website Facebook, died on Thursday at the age of 105, his family wrote on his personal Facebook page on Sunday. Leonidas Panoutsopoulos, a former cobbler, had amassed thousands of friends on the p… … Full News here – Latest News

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Three years after Greece signed the EU-IMF memorandum, some questions remain. Here are some answers: a euro exit. With the exception of some IMF officials, none of Greece’s key partners (Germany, France, the European Commission, the European Central… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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Greece’s first major privatization since the crisis began, secured on Wednesday when a private consortium agreed to buy a 33 percent stake in state gambling monopoly OPAP, will bring some relief to the government and its lenders. Athens has been under pre… … Full News here – Latest News

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What would be the best setting for the perfect combination of tourism and gastronomy? That would be Greece, of course, but the question is what steps have been taken to make the most of this winning combo? Kathimerini recently caught up with… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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Hellenic Petroleum SA, Greece’s largest refiner, is said to be planning its first-ever bond sale. The unrated company is arranging investor meetings in Zurich, Geneva, London and Athens starting April 23, according to a person familiar with the deal who a… … Full News here – Latest News

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Installation of a barbed-wire fence and tightened security measures on Greece’s land border with Turkey have led to an increase in the number of clandestine immigrants seeking to sneak into Europe through the eastern Aegean Sea during the first quarter… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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Installation of a barbed-wire fence and tightened security measures on Greece’s land border with Turkey have led to an increase in the number of clandestine immigrants seeking to sneak into Europe through the eastern Aegean Sea during the first quarter of… … Full News here – Latest News

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A video from a security camera of Attica’s maximum-security Korydallos Prison that shows an inmate jumping out of his cell window, collecting a package dropped into the prison yard by accomplices on the outside and returning to his cell unnoticed by guard… … Full News here – Latest News

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An unspecified number of former managers of Greek state utility Public Power Corporation were charged with breach of duty on Friday for commissioning a power plant that lost the company about 100 million euros, a court source said. PPC commissioned the 25… … Full News here – Latest News

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On February 13, British historian Mark Mazower gave a lecture in Athens on the subject of Greece’s political extremes. In his speech, Mazower warned the country’s political class against underestimating the threat of Golden Dawn, a neofascist party now in… … Full News here – Latest News

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Public Power Corp., Greece’s biggest power company, started its second tender in a month seeking developers to build large-scale solar parks. The company’s renewables unit will accept bids for two 15- megawatt photovoltaic projects in Kozani, Macedonia, u… … Full News here – Latest News

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Debt-hit Greece needs more time as well as adjustments to its “lethal” fiscal policy mix, argues German chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrueck, who says that his Social Democratic Party (SPD) has not yet decided how it will vote on the issue of granting em… … Full News here – Latest News

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Electricite de France SA and Iberdrola Renovables SA’s Greek unit, Rokas Renewables, are the top producers in Greece’s wind energy market, which grew 7 percent in 2012, according to the Hellenic Wind Energy Association. Total installed capacity increased … … Full News here – Latest News

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